Baroness Andrews: FiReBuy Ltd has been given responsibility by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the national procurement of all fire vehicles for English fire and rescue services. They are proposing over the next two years to fund a research project to determine the optimum colours, conspicuity, visual and audible options for fire vehicles.

Lord Triesman: We are greatly concerned by Israeli settlement building, particularly around east Jerusalem. We continue to raise the issue of settlement activity with the Israeli Government. Phase one of the quartet road map calls on Israel to freeze all settlement expansion, including "natural growth", and to dismantle settlement outposts erected since March 2001. We continue to urge Israel to meet its road-map commitments. We have stressed repeatedly that the building of settlements on occupied land is contrary to international law. My right honourable friend, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Minister of State (Dr Kim Howells), raised with Israeli Housing Minister Herzog our concerns about reports of Israeli intentions to construct additional dwellings in Ma'ale Adumim, during his recent visit to Israel and Palestine.